Hook.



J. R. SHERROD.

HOOK.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 22, 1910.

Patented Oct. 10,1911.

INVENTOR M dfww ATTORNEY CQLUMBIA PLANOGRAPM Cm, WASHINGTON. D c.

JENNIE R. SHERROD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1911.

Application filed March 22, 1910. Serial No. 550,835.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENNIE R. SHERRoD, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in hooks, the object of the invent-ion being to provide means, first, for readily securing the hook to the cloth, and, second, for so securing it at the edge of a garment that it will not, in use, project beyond said edge, thus detracting from the appearance of the garment.

Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved hook; Fig. 2 is a plan view; Fig. 3 is a side View; Fig. 4 shows the mode of attaching the hook to the cloth.

Referring to the drawing, it will be seen that the hook is formed of a single piece, one terminal portion of which is arranged to extend obliquely to the general direction of the hook, as shown at 1. The wire is then bent to form a loop 2, and is then extended forward as shown at 3, from about the middle of said looped portion 2. It is then bent out of the plane of said loop and back upon itself, substantially in a plane parallel to the plane of the loop, as shown at 4. It is then bent away from the plane of the loop, as shown at 5, and is bent back parallel to the portion 4, as shown at 6, the portions 4: and 6 of the wire forming the two sides of the hook and the portion 5 forming the point of the hook. It is then bent back on itself as shown at 7, substantially parallel with the portion 3. It is then formed into a second loo-p 8 substantially registering with the first named loop 2, but in a different plane, in close proximity to the plane of the loop 2. At the middle of the rear portion of said loop 8, the wire is bent in a direction transverse to the plane of said loop to form a short loop or tongue 9. From the end of the loop 8, the wire extends, as shown at 10, midway between the wires 3 and 7, as far as the main bends of said portions 4 and 6 of the wire, where it is also bent back, as shown at 10, in the same direction as the bends of the portions 4: and 6, but at a much sharper angle. The terminal portion 11 of said wire is then bent reversely to its former bend, terminating between said portions l and 6, substantially at the end of the main bend. As shown in Fig. 3 a space is thus left between said small hook and the inner sides of the bent portions of the parts 4 and 6.

The device may be attached to the cloth in three different ways, one of said modes of attachment being illustrated in Fig. 4C. In this mode the cloth is passed between the upper loop 2 and the lower loop 8. The tongue 9 is passed through the cloth and is bent back upon the upper loop 2, and stitches passed around the terminal hook 11 and through the cloth. In another mode of use the device is laid upon the cloth and is secured thereto by stitches passed through the cloth and through the loops 8 and 2, and also by stitches passed through the cloth and around the terminal portion 11. In a third method of use the cloth is passed between the loops 2 and 8 and the tongue 9 and the terminal portion 11 are passed through the cloth.

I claim 1. A hook, a main bend of which is formed of two portions of the wire extending around said bend at substantially a constant distance from each other, and also having between said two bent portions of the wire a third terminal port-ion, bent back on itself in the same direction as the main bend, but at a sharper angle, the terminal part of said third portion being then bent reversely and terminating between the portions of the wire forming the main bend substantially at the end of said main bend, substantially as described.

2. A hook formed of a single piece of wire bent to form means for securing the same to the cloth, the latter consisting of two open loops, the openings of which are adjacent to the hook proper and the middle portions remote therefrom, and arranged to lie on opposite sides of the cloth, one of said In testimony whereof I have hereunto set loops being bent at its middle to form a my hand in the presence of two subscribing tongue adapted to penetrate the cloth and to Witnesses.

engage the middle part of the other loop, JENNIE R. SHERROD. and formed to be readily bent to clamp the witnesses:

two loops together, substantially as de- FRANCIS M. VRIGHT,

scribed. D, B. RICHARDS.

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